Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-07-22
. In THE CEMETERIES.
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usv Orlsans' Queer Tombs and Inscrip'
<iees-Gnarled Oaks and Funeral Mosa.
a spss whore Everything Ia Bright
ga Clsan-Marbls Houses.
"How win We get into the cemeteriesf"
We ask the friend who has pointed cut the
enr that viii take rs TO three Of the most
noted. "The gates are always open; there
VA be no trouble about entering" The
or starts; she bows and trips down the
etroet-A dear little lady In widows dress
TO her work In Q great Office, while we
R1n altng on our holiday jaunt to the
place Of the dead A white wan, marled
oaks, with their sad funeral moss, glossy
magnolia trees, with white buds scarcely
Allowing in their tight calyx wrappings Of
Reen-that 10 q first outside view of
ths cemetery. Then, through the open
gate we walk into Q place, level, green,
moundless. Il Il one Of the older ceme-
teries, an avenue Of superb oaks conducts
through III center. The spectral moss
rocks back and forth acroo the shadowy
way. Il he's no rustic, no sound. 10
seems . symbol Of an old yet u~nforeetting
grief; . sign Of q sorrow for the dead
after Il has subsided from tears and sobs.
On the tombs In this cemetery are
carved the old French names, with crosses
or crests; and On projecting hooks fastened
IN the cement Of the wall hang remem,
brances 90 ugly that even loving sentiment
cannot make them other than dissertations
10 the eye; those skeleton wreaths of black,
wire strung beads that shine with a
mockery of mourning, or those chalky
white ones that seem pke clowns in q
tragedy. How grotesque appears human
ity's expression Of deepest feeling beside
the gray moss that mourns overhead and
bright roses that smile from below, where
west natures sympathy and consolation
mingle In this place Of bereavement so
tenderly, 90 tastefully.
Out Of this old cemetery we 20 to O
neighboring one, dazzling as this one is
somber. Here the moss, and the beads,
and the foreign names serve to make one
feel out of this world, in q lonesome place
apart from ones own. But in the neigh
boring spot death IL beautiful, joyous
never q cemetery that seemed 30 brilliant,
20 0ean, SO clear. There is no sign Of the
ancient oak; all the trees are glossy Of leaf
and perfumed-magnolias that rustic and
shine, and break out anon in fairest and
widest Of flowers. The grass is not
wrinkled with graves; IL Is smooth and
clean, stretched out into the sunshine
without flower or headstone. The walks
are wide, weedless, formed of finely pull
verified white shells. Along these white
roads, like dwellings along O street, are
the family tombs, entirely above ground,
each separate, in its own unfenced yard of
LIKE SMALL DWELLINGS.
The tombs are eight to ten feet apart
and six or eight from the edge of the road,
each approached from the roadway by Q
narrow marble footwalk. They are of
white marble and shaped like small dwell.
ings. They are two or three stories In
height; that is, about ten or twelve fest
and proportional neatly; the roof, of mar
be, h turreted, gothic, domed or pagoda
shaped. The effect Of these marble
houses close on efher aide the avenue,
with the little spaces Of green between
them and the wide, unhroken lawn back
Of thsm, the tombs following the curves
Of the road, and leaving In one sheet the
level ground between, give an order and
q Of breathing space such a. our W
payeyards can never have. The marble
doors Of the palaces Of the dead shut
within. In the little dooryards are always
flowers Of the choicest kind, 90 that the
white road, accentusted by the white
structures ct o uniform distance back
- ~ hn-1.-~A .-- ia. -
BY these adjoining flower plants as
TO make . continuous parterre Of
color-the only relief in the white
and green Of the large cemetery
grounds. There are no flowers anywhere
else. The effect Ia exquisite-the effect
produced by separately massing colors;
the curving road, white q untrodden
snow, the long lines Of brilliant flowers on
either side, edged by the wide rows Of
~glistening marble tombs, backed by the
green grass and scattering trees, which
make the center Of the place a park Ike
expanse.
In another cemetery, a little more
tangled than this, and q little less somber
than the other, I was attracted by an i'm
mense pyramid shaped structure of rough
granite rocks, some twelve or fifteen feet
square at its base. II was of unusual size,
shAps and color, and stood near the en-
trance portal. / remember that the in
scription commemorated the virtues of q
dead wife, and depicted the longing Of tho
living c~onsort; it stated how long they
had lived together, that they had no child,
and were ell the world to one another
that the bereaved husband was the last O,
his race and family, and this tomb held al